The Velveteen Rabbit
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Average rating4.2
Loved it. I didn't read this as a child but it was referred to often in the Grady Hendrix book I am currently reading so I picked it up and read it. Glad I did!
a little traumatising but I'll be fine
never thought I would say this but I would like to fight all the toys who bullied my boy Velveteen Rabbit like that. Oh hell I'd fight the real rabbits too for what they said about my boys hind legs.
They better stfu before I make them into a pair of gloves or something. Rabbit who bully don't deserve to live. Electric chair.
Children's books are always so magical, there's a certain genuinity and sincerity that works for adult rarely achieve, that make the stories so beautiful and timeless. Plus I have discovered the work of William Nicholson.
Also feel free to recommend your favourite children's books, there's never enough.
“The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon everyone else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real.”
“What is Real...?”
“... It doesn't happen all at once... You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.”
That's a lesson for all the “superior” mechanical beings out there with sharp edges who think that because of their status at work, lineage, etc. feel they can turn their noses on the plain old velveteen rabbits of the world. I can't believe I've lived as long as I have without reading this great children's classic. It should be distributed at every birthing.